I'm not particularly a fan of invoking Niemoller and/or Hitler as cheap argument ploys. Especially when we may be soon experience a regime that may literally be coming for people rather than slightly inconveniencing research.

No. I never liked how lightly "fascist" was pulled out as an insult for political opponents (no, Ronnie Reagan wasn't a "fascist", whatever his faults were), but it's not really alarmism when you have people in an incoming administration who openly say they they didn't want their children to go to school with Jews and that Asian students and that tech CEOs need to be deported to preserve "civil society". Fascism is exactly what is being suggested, no ironical exaggeration needed.

JB-
Ok dude. Your fears about a situation are appropriate for Godwinning the thread but anyone else referring to Niemoller's evocative reminder of what happens when we are only concerned about ourselves is outrageously overblown rhetoric. Got it.

Oh btw, airlines have stopped transporting research subjects but the Trumpistas haven't come for a single person as a state act.

Mike Pence is the State of Indiana, which for some insane reason has laws against allowing infants to die by neglect. Because infanticide is totally not at odds with American culture, especially if its sex-selective.

Perhaps we could muster scientific societies to boycott airlines that refuse to transport vital scientific reagents? I doubt it took too many voices from the other side to instigate the ban on airlifting mice.